MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WKRN) — One fire department in Wilson County worked with a new tool that will help with investigations.

Honey, a 5.5-year-old labrador retriever,  is one of four accelerant-detection K9s used by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in investigations across the state. Honey and her handler Special Agent Jeff Mosley paid a visit to the Fire Department of Mt. Juliet to help assist.

As soon as Honey smells odors of gasoline or other petroleum-based products, she alerts her handler. She's reward-based, meaning that she gets lots of treats when she's working.

"She can go into a fire scene and, within seconds, find ignitable liquids that are deep below fire debris" Mosley said. "Whereas we can go in as trained investigators [and] have to dig for that evidence for days to find the same evidence that she can find within seconds."

Chief of training with the Fire Department of Mt. Juliet, Scott Lively, said the department used an abandoned house where they train for various scenarios to work with Honey.

During the training, firefighters learned how to best preserve evidence — and how to best utilize Honey in any future investigations.

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